Operation Warp Speed Woodcock
As a result of operation warp speed pfizer announced on monday that its vaccine is more than 90 effective.
Operation warp speed woodcock. Fda stalwart janet woodcock will temporarily step aside as the director of the agencys drug approval division to focus on the covid 19 work. Operation warp speed is a public private partnership to facilitate at an unprecedented pace the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 countermeasures between components of hhs including cdc fda nih and the biomedical advanced research and development authority barda. In a major reorganization intended to better align fdas activities with the national effort to develop covid 19 countermeasures janet woodcock is temporarily stepping away from her position as director of fdas center for drug evaluation and research and peter marks is stepping away from his role as lead of vaccines at operation warp speed. Operation warp speed ows food and drug administration fda centers for drug evaluation and research director janet woodcock discussed operation warp speed ows.
Woodcock will be detailed to fdas office of the commissioner. Operation warp speeds goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by january 2021 as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostics collectively known as countermeasures. Janet woodcock the head of the fdas center for drug evaluation and research. Jacquelyn martinap a version of this article first appeared in dc.
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9 2020 by terri moon cronk dod news unprecedented progress has been made recently on operation warp speed the effort by the defense department health and human services other federal.